The Warm-Up Laps

As in past years the Boston Theater Marathon weekend will include The Warm-Up Laps on May 21 featuring free staged readings. These readings are presented in association with the Boston Center for the Arts and their resident theatres.

This year will feature:

Boston Playwrights' Theatre presents
The Correspondent by Ken Urban
Reading begins at 1pm
A grieving husband hires an ill woman to deliver a message to his recently deceased wife in the afterlife. He makes an unexpected connection with this young woman dying of cancer. Then, letters signed by his dead wife begin to appear, letters that detail things that only she could know. Is his mysterious correspondent a ghost or a con artist?

Company One presents
Uncle Jack by Michael Hammond
Reading begins at 4pm
Based on Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, but this time the perpetually feuding family have been moved to a country estate in New England, where they are trying to save their theater company. Lively, full-blooded contemporary versions of Chekhov's characters go at one another with all the passion and wit they can muster. The company's financial crisis and growing family tensions force a showdown that blows family ties and furtive romances to smithereens. 

Public Record: The Markoff Interviews by Gabriel Kuttner & Paula Langton
Reading begins at 6pm
Based on the 2009 Craigslist killer police interviews. Featuring Robert Walsh, Ken Cheeseman, Jess Moss and Brian Vaughan.

Publick Theatre presents
Deported by Joyce Van Dyke
Reading begins at 7pm
Deported is a true story about two women friends in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide--sometimes called the "forgotten genocide" of the 20th century. Set in Providence, Los Angeles and a 21st-century dream-world, the action spans more than a century in this intimate yet epic story--woven out of dreams and history--about love, loss, and regeneration.

Free and open to the public – limited to 100 seats per performance – no reservations necessary.